How to Know Your Rights: Patients: A Handbook for Every Health Service User

This book provides basic information on the rights of patients using the health services. In straightforward language it spells out exactly where patients and relatives stand in such matters as visits to doctors, clinics and hospitals, confidentiality, abortion, AIDS, consent to treatment and rights to treatment, the right to information and records, terminal care, organ donation, medical negligence, complaints and compensation, and other vital topics.
 
This book provides basic information on the rights of patients using the health services. In straightforward language it spells out exactly where patients and relatives stand in such matters as visits to doctors, clinics and hospitals, confidentiality, abortion, AIDS, consent to treatment and rights to treatment, the right to information and records, terminal care, organ donation, medical negligence, complaints and compensation, and other vital topics.